And let's not forget that Pruitt is actually the face of what the Repub Party has become, let alone what it's still morphing into. Pruitt represents the true nature of the party and who actually controls it.
On the one hand, you have the emotionally corrupted base of the party driving things along like they're told, refusing to question their leaders as to why they always end up holding the tail of the elephant and getting crapped on instead of holding the trunk of the beast and leading the party in ways that benefit themselves economically.
On the other, you have a Repub leadership that is forced to continuously cover layers of lies over the other in order to keep the status quo, and all of these lies concentrate on keeping the emotions of their constituency at a highly agitated state and focused on an enemy that are from the same economic demographic as them instead of their own leaders who are ripping them off and laughing their asses off while they're at it.
Repub party leadership know where all the red hot buttons are that are wired directly into the emotional trigger points of their constituent's minds, most if not all of them single issue topics that are hammered into their constituency most always involving, hate, fear and prejudice in lieu of providing their constituency the means for creating and acquiring better paying jobs with the backing of a compassionate and caring government.
The GOP is clearly and now so much more obviously predatory in nature, victimizing their own working class constituency and thus that whole demographic in order to exclusively benefit the aristocrat class of our nation.
Their working class constituency as well as "their enemies" of the same economic status would have been much better off if they were to take an honest assessment of whether it's much more important to build a wall, or shut out the world that they were told was the cause of their miseries, or jailing Hillary, or all of those other single point issues that literally make these working class folks totally ignore the reality that they have the power to join with their brethren from the "evil, godless, communist immigrant loving" side (as they were told) and give themselves a leg up on seriously improving their quality of life at the expense of, well, absolutely nothing other than clearing their minds of the hate and fear that their party leaders have imbued them with.